Not for a minute do I believe that I create my own reality, and not for a minute do I believe that I don’t. I’m caught somewhere in the middle. I’m at the “I kind of create my own reality” stage. The idea that I create my own reality is both concept and fact. On the one hand, I know it’s true, and on the other hand, I don’t totally believe ...

The other night I was lying down, exhausted because of a recent shopping trip (see said shopping trip for socks with hangover below). At the same time that I was taking it easy, I was chatting with my son, and at one point I shushed him for his volume. I wanted him to take it down a notch because the noise was hurting my ears. Unperturbed, he ...

I was chitchatting with my son the other day, and he said that even though he thinks it will be fun after the shift is complete, that if he had to choose a time period to be born into, he’d choose this time period. He said that it was exciting to move from one set of strongly held ideas into a group of ideas that are so radically different. ...

Hi Ray, Yes, the quadrants = perspectives, and they take time to play with and ''unpack'' the many interesting insights that come from using them as a sort of ''check and balance.'' The main point is that they are simultaneously nested = ''always already'' the instant The-One became The-One-in-The-Many. So it helps us to balance the ''I'' ...

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, then you John Wayne the door.” Robert Standish You can’t know a person by looking at them or reading their credentials. By college, I felt world’s older than most of my peers. By age 25, I used to say, “I’ve lived ten lives in one lifetime.” Since then, I’ve lived many more, and I’m really just getting ...

I once wrote a definition for “truth” in a dictionary I began to draft as I worked through metaphysical ideas. The definition I came up with is as follows: Truth is choice. Thus, everything is true. It’s not an either/or world where one truth knocks out another person’s mistaken idea about how things work. Whatever anyone wants to ...

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Hi Joe,   I really don’t know what to say ;o)  I am glad you feel comfortable with your experiences and their interpretation.  I think for me it is difficult to relate to what you are saying because it falls within the realm of personal experience, and there is no established or “universalized” vocabulary for many personal ...

Hi Bill, It's an important issue to contemplate for sure. I'm not clear on how the decision to down a plane, including terrorists and civilians, doesn't involved ''judgment'' within the belief system of duplicity. In my view, you have to judge a threat as a threat, weigh the horrible decision to ''the lesser to two evils,'' and judge to take some ...

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